Partners:
Charity Asthma UK
University College London Medical School
The Royal Free NHS London Foundation Trust
Background:
There are three children with asthma in every classroom in English secondary schools. Asthma UK charity data show that more than 75% of hospital visits are preventable by better recognition of symptoms and early management.
Secondary school children in Denmark have demonstrated improved outcomes after being taught basic resuscitation for cardiac arrest.
This project set up a sustainable university-based project aimed at improving asthma awareness school children.

Funded by NHS England’s Pathfinder person centred outcomes and measurement programme in 2015, this pathfinder saw commissioners and their commissioning support partners work together to co-design a person centred outcomes and a measurement tool to create insights – both quantitative and qualitative – about the lives of children aged 05 – 16 and their parents in Newcastle and Gateshead. The programme ran from March 2015 – March 2016.